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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology announces new president
The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Board of Trustees has named global engineering executive and former engineering educator James C. Conwell, Ph.D., PE, as the institute’s new president, according to an announcement today by Board of Trustees Chairman William Fenoglio.
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LATEST: Anderson’s condition upgraded to ‘good’
The condition of former Terre Haute Mayor Judy Anderson has been upgraded to good at an Indianapolis hospital.
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UPDATE: Former Terre Haute mayor in critical condition at Methodist Hospital
Former Terre Haute Mayor Judy Anderson remains in critical condition this morning in an Indianapolis hospital following a Sunday crash in which her husband, Brent, died.
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Former Mayor Anderson injured, husband killed in car crash
Former Terre Haute Mayor Judy Anderson is being treated in Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis for injuries sustained Sunday evening in a single-vehicle Putnam County crash that killed her husband, Brent.
Police reports indicate the accident occurred on U.S. 40 in Putnam County near Reelsville.
More information will be released as it becomes available.
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Meteor explodes over Russia, nearly 1,000 injured
MOSCOW — A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia’s Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb today, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring nearly 1,000 people.
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Pope avoids predecessor's show of suffering
The closest of confidants, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger watched from the front row as Pope John Paul II, once a strapping athlete, steadily deteriorated in his later years.
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Lights Out for 49ers
A power outage at the Super Bowl put the nation’s biggest sporting event on hold for more than a half-hour Sunday, interrupting an otherwise electric, back-and-forth game that ended with Joe Flacco and the Baltimore Ravens as NFL champions thanks to a 34-31 victory over the San Francisco 49ers.
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Whiteout wipeout
A more than 30-vehicle pileup on a snowy Indiana interstate left at least 10 people injured Thursday, including at least one critically, and shut down a heavily traveled highway for most of the evening, authorities said.
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VIDEO: ISU knocks off No. 15 Wichita State
After a nonconference season in which unfancied Indiana State defeated Miami and Mississippi, many observers stood on the sideline waiting for the Sycamores to get a similar victory in Missouri Valley Conference play before they saw fit to declare them a legitimate MVC title threat.
The wait is over.
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Obama says ‘America’s possibilities are limitless’
Declaring “our journey is not complete,” President Barack Obama took the oath of office for his second term before a crowd of hundreds of thousands today, urging the nation to set an unwavering course toward prosperity and freedom for all its citizens and protect the social safety net that has sheltered the poor, elderly and needy.
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ROX ROLL: Rockville powers way to Wabash Valley Pizza Hut Classic title
Conventional wisdom wasn’t much good from a prediction standpoint Monday night at Terre Haute South, where Rockville held off Robinson 44-39 in boys high school basketball for the championship of the Pizza Hut Wabash Valley Classic.
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The Pagano Factor
The players on the Indianapolis Colts roster thought that they had gotten most of their emotions out of their system early last week when head coach Chuck Pagano returned from nearly a season-long leave of absence.
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Jan. 2 is 50th anniversary of deadly Home Packing plant explosion
Carl Bender was just 16 and a Schulte High School student on Jan. 2, 1963, the day a massive explosion at Home Packing Co. forever changed his life.
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SECOND UPDATE: Official: 27 dead in Conn. school shooting
A man opened fire inside the Connecticut elementary school where his mother worked Friday, killing 26 people, including 18 children, and forcing students to cower in classrooms and then flee with the help of teachers and police.
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Cleaning up a legacy: Old coke and carbon plant provided good, bad
Today, it’s only a big, open field with scattered scrub trees, weeds and pieces of industrial rubble.
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Update: Ravens dismiss former South standout Cam Cameron as offensive coordinator
Former Terre Haute South High School football and basketball standout Cam Cameron was fired Monday as offensive coordinator of the Baltimore Ravens, who have lost two straight and are still striving for consistency in the running and passing game.
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Miles envisions playoff berths for Georgia State
After rebuilding Indiana State, Trent Miles was introduced Monday as the new coach of a fledgling program at Georgia State, and immediately took aim on winning records and playoff berths for the Atlanta-based university.
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TODD GOLDEN: Trent Miles leaves Sycamores with giant legacy
To glean perspective on Trent Miles’ time as Indiana State’s football coach, I went back into the Tribune-Star’s archives to remind myself of what the football program was like when Miles arrived to rebuild it.
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UPDATE: ISU football coach Trent Miles leaving for Georgia State
The Tribune-Star has learned that Indiana State football coach Trent Miles will depart the Sycamores' program to take the same job at Georgia State University.
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No. 1 Indiana beats tar out of North Carolina
Cody Zeller showed everyone Tuesday night why he’s the best big man in America.
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Alleged abuse victim jumps to freedom
A shoeless, underweight 17-year-old boy who told authorities he had broken out a second-floor window and jumped to freedom directed police to a North 12th Street house in Terre Haute where, investigators believe, two adults had tied children to beds, denied them food and abused them.
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No. 1 Indiana charges back in OT to beat Georgetown
A night after an ineffective game, Cody Zeller had 17 points and eight rebounds to lead No. 1 Indiana to an 82-72 overtime win against Georgetown in the title game of the Legends Classic tournament on Tuesday night.
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Indy home explosion now homicide case
Authorities launched a homicide investigation Monday into the house explosion that killed two people and left numerous homes uninhabitable in an Indianapolis neighborhood.
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UPDATE 2: Indy residents describe blast, fire that killed 2
A massive explosion sparked a huge fire and killed two people in an Indianapolis neighborhood where about three dozen homes were damaged or destroyed, authorities said Sunday. The powerful nighttime blast shattered windows, crumpled walls and could be felt at least three miles away.
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Sisters of Providence artist to exhibit work
Sister Jody O'Neil, artist in residence for the Sisters of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods, will have some of her artistic creations on display and available for purchase during art shows Nov. 11 and 16.
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Challenger Ritz knocks off Bennett in state superintendent race
Democrat challenger Glenda Ritz pulled off a stunning upset Tuesday night, beating incumbent Republican Tony Bennett in the unexpectedly tight race for Indiana superintendent of public instruction.
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Donnelly gives Democrats Indiana Senate victory
Democrat Joe Donnelly triumphed Tuesday in one of the nation’s most tumultuous Senate races, capitalizing on fallout over his tea party-backed opponent’s comment that a pregnancy resulting from rape is “something God intended” to capture a seat that just a year ago looked to be a lock for Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar.
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Obama wins bellwether Vigo County
President Barack Obama defeated Republican rival Mitt Romney in Vigo County, 19,553 votes to 19,229.
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Race tight as election night count goes to wire
President Barack Obama won the reliably Democratic Northeast, and Republican Mitt Romney secured his conservative base Tuesday night in a duel for the White House shadowed by a weak economy and high unemployment.
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Boehner wins as Republicans fight to keep House
Speaker John Boehner won unopposed re-election Tuesday to his Ohio congressional seat and other incumbents in the East and South were cruising to easy wins as Republicans fought to extend their control of the House for two more years.
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